total repeal? even "the new york times" reminded us today of the catastrophic medicare repeal back in 1989. might history be repeating itself? this as democratic leaders like nancy pelosi insist all is well. president obama himself about to rally his most ardent supporters and ask them to stand by the very troubled health care law. >>> and the dow crosses the 16,000 mark for the first time, but then retreats. and the debate continues over whether this rally is a bubble. those stories and much more coming up on "the kudlow report," beginning right now. welcome to "the kudlow report." we're live at p.m. on the east coast, 4:00 p.m. pacific. let's get right to the breaking news that president obama may be turning obama care back to the insurance companies. i think where it belongs. cnbc's eamon javers joins us with the details. good evening, eamon. >> reporter: good evening, larry. the white house was on the defensive again today, arguing with reporters over these predictions made by the white house that the website would be up and running by the end of this month, and dividing and conqu

have you learned, mike. key medicare tech officials told law makers they need to build the website and payments to insure need to be worked out and on the broader problems on the overall health care website. they needed more time. i think it is a dynamically changing environment in which we had more time and that time would have been devoted to solidifying policy. nthree years and this is not something that got plopped on your desk and the law passed in 20 authority ten. >> it raised red flags with top administration officials about issues with the development of healthcare.gov. kathleen sebelius and tavenener anded to park were briefed in early april and two weeks later sebelius did not raise alarms with law makers. >> we have the federal hub on track and on time. we are moving a head with a marketplace that we will be individually responsible for and working closely with our state partners on their plans and time table for the state based marketplaces. namong the findings in the report released to the government last spring no single decision maker with pour in the development of

on the backseat. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, it helps pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. to me, relationships matter. i've been with my doctor for 12 years. now i know i'll be able to stick with him. [ male announcer ] with these types of plans, you'll be able to visit any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. plus, there are no networks, and virtually no referrals needed. so don't wait. call now and request this free decision guide to help you better understand medicare... and which aarp medicare supplement plan might be best for you. there's a wide range to choose from. we love to

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medicare. anyone over 65 is not meant to be entering the insurance programs for obamacare. but she did have a point that insurance companies in a lot of cases are the ones that are changing these plans. one thing that the white house is try to emphasize is that even prior to the affordable care act insurance companies were the ones making the also changes to people. a lot of these cancellations or not necessarily directly derived from his health law. i think that is the point, he's really try to hammer it home. host: here's your updated piece in "politico." from today. states divided over complying with obamacare fix. regulators are dressing to president obama's rescue after an attempt to fix a rising wave of canceled policies. tell us more. guest: when president obama announces fixed last week, he kicked the problem . insurance -- to insurance companies and state insurance regulators. what we have seen is state regulators, even if they want to comply with the president's wishes, they might be constrained because they have to do it quickly. they only have a few weeks to really get thei

out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, it helps pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. >> the investigation is still ongoing, 7:25 tuesday, virginia state police troopers and sheriff's deputies responsibled to a 9-1-1 call at a's at 26 vineyard drive in the community of millboro in bath county. during the course of the investigation, state police determined that senator deeds and his son, austin deeds, who also went by gus, 24 years of age, had an altercation at the deeds residence. deeds was stabbed multiple times about the head and upper torso. deeds was able to leave the scene on foot and as he was coming down the hill of his residence he encountered a cousin who lives ne

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all the calories. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, it could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. call now to request your free decision guide. i've been with my doctor for 12 years. now i know i'll be able to stick with him. [ male announcer ] you'll be able to visit any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. plus, there are no networks, and virtually no referrals needed. see why millions of people have already enrolled in the only medicare supplement insurance plans endorsed by aarp. don't wait. call now. >>> if you read only one thing this morning, "national journal" is calling the whole crack smoking rob ford story political d

most efficient way to do it. if we want to be efficient, we expand medicare for everyone. because that works pretty darn well. we're not going to do that. if the president were to fire every person involved in that website, it wouldn't change a thing, because they don't believe in health care for everyone. >> one of the things you're getting out of this recent dust-up of the last few weeks is just a reminder that republicans do politics. they don't do policy. and they're quite skilled at the politics. >> very skilled. >> and you know, they were quite -- they were down, because of their absence of policy when we had the shutdown in the debt ceiling. because they don't do policy. then you have this problem with the rollout of the aca, and bingo, they're back in their zone. they don't have to do policy, because they just -- they just haven't had an idea since the economics tanked a couple years ago. but politics, they're all over that. >> joy reid and jared bernstein, thank you so much. >>> coming up, george zimmerman returns to a florida courtroom today. we'll have the latest, inclu

is all centered around the medicare advantage program which has been very popular with medicare patients but has been very expensive from the government standpoint. i believe what is happening with the cutbacks in the advantage program, through the affordable care act cutbacks many companies take opportunity high utilizing doctors from their plan. melissa: let me stop you there because i want to know what that means. what is a high utilizing doctor? isn't everybody paid the same no matter if you're getting reimbursements on medicare advantage? >> on a medicare advantage the reward is fixed payment system to the insurance companies. and so what they have a doctor that utilizes more services, recommends for x-rays, more lab tests, more hospitalization, than another doctor for same given disease, that represents a loss to the insurance company. so i think what is happening is, they're looking at the utilization of their doctors and how they prescribe and how they order and they're eliminating those doctors which appear to them to be high-coot and high utilizers. melissa: high cost

dual eligible eligible for both medicare or medical and medicare. what is long-term care integration? what does that phrase mean? it means the integration of primary and acute care services with long-term services and supports as well as institutional care. so we're talking about bringing the medical model together with the social services model, and they will both be provided by managed care health plans to this population, the dual eligibles, those who are eligible for med ical and medicare so an older population as well as a population with disabilities as well as populations who are older so it's a mix. this plan was prepared because california has instituted a coordinated care initiative. in january of 2012 governor jerry brown introduced the coordinated care initiative. its purpose across the state of california is to improve coordinate and coordination of service delivery for consumer satisfaction of the groups i mentioned and at the same time substantial savings so they want to shift where services are provided. i should tell you that the coordinated care initiative is tied t

clara so those count ies are now getting up to speed integrating medicare and medical funds for the target populations in those counties to be served through managed care health plans. alameda county is doing an enormous amount of work we're tracking those closely. in 2016 there will be 8 other counties included san francisco we anticipate will be one of those counties in 2016 so what we're doing now is to take this time to get ready to learn what's happening in the other 8 county ies so that we can do the best possible job for all of the people who are going to be transitioning to this demonstration project in san francisco. san francisco is what is known as a two plan model. we have the san francisco health plan which some of you may have heard of which is the public option and we have anthem blue cross which is the commercial plan and we have a third option the pace program provided through on lock so those 3 options will be available for the target population that i mentioned older adults who are dually eligible and they will enroll either by choice or they will be passively enr

. caller: i hope this is not as bad as medicare part d. medicare part d. i had a good plan through my company. said youeled it and could get the government plan. i said this is a lot worse than what i got. i went to the v.a. every medicine there was higher than i could get any egg box store. store. big box is your plan, replacing the replacing this obamacare. guest: you said you're with the v.a. plan. that is not medicare part d. you are limited to the list of medications you can take. of big-boxd is a lot stores began to offer medications like antibiotics for free or at huge discounts, to get you in the door. you mentioned medicare part d. saw thattary of hhs there were problems and he told drugstores fill the prescription and we will take care of this later. they ran several tests along the way. some people were dual eligible. just fill the prescription and we will take care of that. that was not a lapse that occurred. here we have a huge problem that is not fixed yet. the website may be fixed. what is not going to be fixed are the prices people will be paying. people are saying

. medicare open enrollment. of year again. time to compare plans and costs. you don't have to make changes. buit never hurts to see if u can find bettoverage, save money, or both. and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care la open enrollment ends december 7th. so now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare >>> okay, it's no secrets, the labor unions went hog wild and helped get obamacare passed and now suddenly two plus years later they read it and they don't like it. oops? so now what? well, they want a special favor from president obama. and if they get it, someone is going to have to pay for it. that someone, that would be you. washington examiner chief political correspondent byron york joins us. okay. so where do we begin? what is it that the unions want? >> this is complicated. there is something called a reinsurance fee in obamacare. the deal is that insurance companies are going to have to start covering people with preexisting conditions, riskier cases than before. it's going to cost them more. what we didn't hear a lot about when obamacare w

entitlements like medicare and medicaid should go away. >> how is this their fault, though? even your advice was to stay away and let democrats own this mess. >> what i'm saying is the republicans -- obama is right to this september. the republicans have done nothing about dealing with the health care crisis in this country except harp on obama care. they have offered up nothing that makes any accepsense to me. >> you don't want to hear the alternatives. the only solution he'll have to come to, you have to remove the mandate. you can't fine people for not having insurance they can't get and don't want. >> the whole thing falls apart. >> and it should. >> you want to see medicare and medicaid go away. >> it was just about getting votes. >> this is like the book case that no one can put together and falls apart after three months. >>> ahead, who amore credit abi problems for the administration. new developments in the ir sft scandal and administration possibly cooking the books on job numbers during last year's election. and george zimmerman back in court. >>> you missed the best break

the table by not choosing the right medicare d plan. no one could have left this much money here. whoo-hoo-hoo! yet many seniors whoompare medicare d plans realize they can save hundreds of dollars. cvs/pharmacy wants to help you save on medicare expenses. talk to your cvs pacist, call, or go to cvs.com/compare to get your free, personalized plan comparison today. call, go online, or visit your local store today. >>> more now the obama administration's department of justice saying just weeks ago, estimated, that essentially tens of millions of americans would lose their employer-based health insurance. this is the same time the president told the american people this is a mistake. what he said he meant was in error. the the new york times suggest as repeal of the law might be possible. similar to the way a health care law was with with repealed 25 years ago. judge andrew napolitano is a judicial analyst. many people may not remember the 1989 catastrophic coverage act. it was big. it was unpopular. it died a painful month 17 months after it wases passed. >> i didn't remember it un

security, medicare and is a right and not a privilege. great to see you. >> hi. >> so what do you make of this sudden name change. it is all about the name. >> could it be because the numbers are going to -- >> curious. i guess you would say. look, i was actually thinking about this next week. i was thinking about when they might stop referring to it as obama care. you might remember that he did say he embraced it as obama care. people would stop calling it obama care once they realized it how great it is. so democrats embraced it and called it obama care. and now nancy pelosi went out of her way to say, it is the affordable care act. jay carney used both terms but they call it the affordable care act. some people might have a problem with it. but moving onto a record high right now, 56% of u.s. adults now say the federal government's responsibility to have health care coverage shouldn't be the case. what do you make of this massive shift? >> i think that this is one of the -- there are so many problems with what has gone wrong. the most obvious is that people can't get onto the website.

to buy it and then find out what i'm doing. do i go d.c. exchange, medicare, what's my options? i like to have all the information in front of me. if you go on amazon, you're going to buy a tie, pretty easy to shop, i can shop many places. why can't i shop this. >> senator manchin, i love to hear you extol online tie shopping. >> you have talked about how the president needs to wage a third campaign. he himself has said this is my last campaign as tenure as president. he was on the phone with ofa foot soldiers last night. what else do you think he needs to do if this is, in fact, a campaign? >> he needs to frame things just the way senator manchin just did. number one, explain why we got into this in the beginning. the why of it. i think there's really been -- you've got to fix the mechanics but you have to reexplain the why of it. what the problem was, what they were trying to fix, what good things have already been accomplished for millions and millions of people in terms of getting rid of denial for pre-existing conditions, lifetime limits. have you to explain it in the persona

/thankyoucards on the table by not choosing the right medicare d plan. no one could have left this much money here. whoo-hoo-hoo! yet many seniors who compare medicare d plans realize they can save hundreds of dollars. cvs/pharmacy wants to help you save on medicare expenses. talk to your cvs pharmacist, call, or go to cvs.com/compare to get your free, personalized plan comparison today. call, go online, or visit your local store today. medicare open enrollment. of year again. time to compare plans and costs. you don't have to make changes. but it never hurts to see if you can find better coverage, save money, or both. and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care law. open enrollment ends december 7th. so now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare ♪ by the end of december, we'll be delivering ♪ ♪ through 12 blizzards blowing ♪ 8 front yards blinding ♪ 6 snowballs flying ♪ 5 packages addressed by toddlers ♪ ♪ that's a q ♪ 4 lightning bolts ♪ 3 creepy gnomes ♪ 2 angry geese ♪ and a giant blow-up snowman ♪ that kind of freaks

... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, it could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. call now to request your free decision guide. i've been with my doctor for 12 years. now i know i'll be able to stick with him. [ male announcer ] you'll be able to visit any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. plus, there are no networks, and virtually no referrals needed. see why millions of people have already enrolled in the only medicare supplement insurance plans endorsed by aarp. don't wait. call now. >>> we have some comments out from the u.n. to achieve full interest rate liberalization in the media term is what their aim is. it will quicken

right. if we're looking for a comparison isn't obamacare most like bush's medicare part d program. it was a rollout, flawed a large change in our system but wound up being repaired around working well. >> that say stupid comparison, jon. medicare part d didn't murder anybody. >> jon: but obamacare didn't murder anybody either. >> yet. no one remembers that program. so many tasty terds and you pick the one the raspberry filling thank comparison is your stupid face do the stupid face dance, right? >> jon: i don't know what that -- >> remember, no? that stupid dance you did with the stupid face that was so stupid. >> jon: oh, yeah. i do remember that actually. >> i feel bad for your mirror. >> god your face is so stupid. >> stupid face. you know metaphorically speaking. look at it. [ laughter ] >> jon: it is pretty (bleep) stupid. samantha bee, jason jones [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back to the program. [cheers and applause] for yet another installment in the award series gay watch. our first story tonight daughter of the former vice president liz cheney who is running for

know when i was helping my mother with medicare part d almost ten years ago now, we have a lot of the same challenges, trying to figure out what was the best plan and how she might be affected by this, we had a lot of the glitches that we're experiencing now with part d as well. we worked through those glitches and my employer made a good decision with regard to her medicare coverage. and then ultimately i think today, it's one of those popular features of health care, provided in large measure because of the legislative approach that we used with the aca. that is working extremely well. we're going to see that happen with the aca as well. >> you can see washington journal every morning live on c-span. we're going live to hear from ben bernanke, he's being introduced right now by robert graybois. >> he had a reputation and was quite beloved on both sides of the aisle. last year we had edmond phelps from columbia university and the good fortune of herb stein's son, the actor ben stein who came and gave an address, remembering his father. and the only thing i'll say beyond that is, as b

medicare part d. >> the only defense is comparing it to medicare part d. >> 5.2 million people have had their insurance policies canceled. that is not a glitch. that is a failed policy. >> it comes back to a vision. we want to have an opportunity for people in this country here to for who have not been able to the afford insurance to have that opportunity. the republicans, despite what you've said so far have offered nothing but 47 attempts to undermine the act. >> that's not true. tom price has offered comprehensive health care reform packages. >> let me move on. we're talking about republicans. we're talking about democrats. we're talking about character. you have a republicanen policymaker who has been arrested for cocaine possession. is that a republican that you think should stay in the republican caucus? or should he resign? >> well, i'm not, if that's happened today, i've been in meetings all day, and i'm not familiar with that development. >> certainly not representative -- >> let me ask. here's the situation. >> there are bad actors in both parties. >> let me bring this back to

the rit medicare d plan. no one could hav left this much money here. whoo-hoo-hoo! yet many seniors whoompare medicare d plans realize they can save hundreds of dollars. cvs/pharmacy wants to help you save on medicare expenses. talk to your cvs prmacist, ll, or go to cvs.com/compare to get your free, personalized pl comparison today. call, go online, or visit your local store today. >> thousands of people gathered today at the site of one of the briefest and most memorable speeches in u.s. history. but the president was not one of them. we report on the 150th history of the gettysburg address. >> one observer in the crowd had managed to security himself a spot near the platform and he talked about the silence, the intensity with which people listened to the gettysburg address. that they interrupted lincoln with roars of applause five times during the address and then at the end, gave three cheers for lincoln. >> of the two to three minute address universally regarded as america's greatest oration delivered by her president, much is ambiguous, why did the copy of the speech that he s

not around when medicare was rolled out, that was the last time we rolled out anything by paper, but let me give you the results. three members of congress, the mayor of houston, the republican county judge, and the secretary of labor. we had 800 families show up on saturday morning and signed in, of course with multiple attendees per family. nearly 300 people set up follow up appointments after a navigator. he had 88 certified navigators there. we do not know how many applications were completed, because the number is still being tallied by navigators and hhs and our regional office out of dallas. there are people who want to do it. and we have to do it by paper, we will do it. that is the frustration we have. we want us to work because there are millions of people in our country who need this. the majority in house may not understand that, but i know in our just a do. -- in our district, they do. to partnk cms takes the matter -- to heart the matter and everybody is your is about a improving this experience because we know in districts like yours there are quite a few number of peo

presents a long-run opportunity for job and wage growth. quoting for the center for medicare and medicaid services, inflation adjusted health spending grew at a 2% annual rate over the three years since 2010. the lowest rate recorded since we began tracking these data in the 1960s. lower health spending helps with wages and jobs. fourth, the dramatic increase in domestic energy production is another opportunity for the u.s. economy. crude oil production has grown each year the president has been in office, reaching its highest level in 17 years in 2012. we've seen stronger fuel efficiency, and as a result of all of these advances, we learned just today that our domestic production of crude oil exceeded our net imports of oil in october. more broadly, the president remains firmly committed to an all of the above energy strategy, including progress on renewable energy as well. finally, the last favorable trend we have is that technology provides significant opportunities for long-term growth, especially in areas that benefit from the combination of mobile computing and increasingly

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, medicare official marilyn tavenner and white house chief technology officer todd park were briefed on the report early april and two weeks later sebelius said they were on track and on time. >> one billion dollars was appropriated. i can tell you we are on track. we have judiciously used those resources and we intend to be open for open enrollment around the country october 1st. >> reporter: white house officials acknowledged that red flags were raised but nobody had any idea of exactly the scope and breadth of the problems with this website when it launched october 1st. but so far i have not heard anybody in the administration defend sebelius coming up here to capitol hill saying they were on track and on time, jenna. jenna: there are a big part of the story today, mike. thank you. >> reporter: thank you. jon: if numbers truly do not lie the white house might be sweating right now. a new poll shows the bungleed health care rollout is continuing to take its toll on president obama. "washington post/abc news poll" shows the president's approval rating the lowest since he took office and a

medicare expansion which is, you know, basically not helping out. and those folks, i hope they remember who helped them and who didn't. >> well, that's going to be interesting to see, if they do in the mid terms. i was told yesterday by charlie crist in florida, he sure isn't going to run away from it. and i think the democrats will be making a huge mistake for running away from obama care. the white house is saying that almost 5.5 million americans will be uninsured because of republican governors' failure to expand medicare in their states. are republican governors more interested in politics or helping their own people? >> well, i think that they are interested in keeping people desperate or in -- and that allows them to be able to demagog, and that allows them to try to do something and make a political out of it. it doesn't help people get health care. it doesn't get a family the health care they need when they get sick or injured. and in my opinion, that's unfortunate. and so for those who live up under those governorses who won't help them, i think those folks really nee

1988, we had the medicare catastrophic coverage act and it was backed by president ronald reagan and it was extremely popular on the medicare program since 1965 they did not have any protection against the financial devastation of catastrophic illness then-president reagan proposed the and the congress, both republicans and democrats backed it and within one year, the law disappeared. >> it went down not because of the concept, everyone who was in favor of this the law was designed in the details were embedded in this law. there were several problems, but the big problem was coverage and a lot of senior citizens have coverage, but what the catastrophic build it was at a universal drug entitlement, a drug benefit, that was going to be paid for with a supplemental premium and this was a tax and people were paying a tax for this drug benefit. and the problem was is that many seniors had already had drug coverage through the place of work and so they were being forced to pay for a benefit they did not want and need. gerri: goodbye to the law. the fast forward here several years. rules an

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, which is kind of puzzling. we wi learn that kathleen sebelius and medicaid and medicare administrator and technology officer were briefed in april and yet, after all these briefings of top administration officials there, was still this blunder. >> you were not briefed at all there was a mckenzie report going on? >> i knew that mckenzie has been brought the to conduct some interviews some assessments and report to our administrator, in which i actually participated in some of hose -- >> you participated in interviews. >> i was not given the final report. >> even even though there were warning signs there were no steps taken to avoid this blunder. that leads some leading republicans to say, heads should roll. >> what this report talks about is chaos. at cms. nobody is in charge. they talk about the fact that you had multiple people that were making multiple changes and major design changes to the system just weeks prior to the testing -- prior to the rollout without testing it. >> reporter: the "national review" is reporting in 2010 administration officials predicted the v

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or supplement to medicare. we have long-term costs problems in medicare. thinking creatively as we restructure health care and give ing improved opportunities for a robust marketplace for health insurance that just doesn't con sole dade the marketplace into fewer and fewer companies, what is happening now, this is becoming a utility companies that work with hospitals and that's it. and the government will have a role in setting rates and that's it. you lose the dynamic of the competitive model for the insurance market while protecting people's access, we should allow them access and not be denied for pre-existing conditions and there are a lot of ways to do that. if we do that, we can retain and keep the market dynamic basis for controlling health care costs of the we do this in all other areas of our life and it's normal. no reason we have to put on blinders when we are dealing with ordinary health care costs and submit to the system. there is no reason for that. if we inject this sort of competitive marketplace for ordinary costs, competitiveness in the marketplace for ordinary p

security and medicare resip cecipients would happy if they did that. >> a lot of us still view -- there are too many people in washington still think older voters are fdr voters. this is a base republican vote now. seniors are a base republican vote. our way too early poll of christie and hillary -- a reminder, one of the only through groups that christie licked hillary on was among seniors. this is a rock ribbed republican group how. and so i think you're right, i think republicans are afraid of turning him off. >> i want to go back to 2016 in our wa

party in a very hostile way. >> maybe a lot of those older white social security and medicare resip cecipients would happy if they did that. >> a lot of us still view -- there are too many people in washington still think older voters are fdr voters. this is a base republican vote now. seniors are a base republican vote. our way too early poll of christie and hillary -- a reminder, one of the only through groups that christie licked hillary on was among seniors. this is a rock ribbed republican group how. and so i think you're right, i think republicans are afraid of turning him off. >> i want to go back to 2016 in our way too early poll in a moment. but before that, i want for talk about social issues for a second. but again when we started covering politics, social issues were murder for democrats. now they're offensive weapons. i want you to look at where this is headed and think ten years in the future, will gay marriage be legal in every state and will marijuana be legal in every state. >> wow. let me get there indirectly. you look at surveys of millennial voters. you'll see th

that it is improving, and that his departments for medicaid and medicare services will update the subcommittee on the marketplace tomorrow. >>> meanwhile, united health care dropping thousands, leaving many wondering if they can see their long-time physicians, united health care says the cutbacks are the result of government under-funding of managed care plans for the elderly. and more on money being spent on premiums on medical claims in the last quarter. >>> and finally, nbr has more on the week-long series, and the economic issues facing america's biggest cities, many of which are in a critical situation. scott kohn has more from oakland, california. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: curtis robinson is not your average pastor. before he took the pulpit at the church, he spent time as a stockbroker, which figures into his work. peace comes at a premium in oakland, with 127 murders last year, and the highest armed robbery rate in the country. >> we have to have more at the police department. >> reporter: the mayor says the city is hiring officers again but the force is still down by rough

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under medical or medicare to some degree it is if the providers want to work with them but it's still not enough to be able to allow or grant enough access so that's an issue i think can be explored more as far as the vendors their availability to have it covered through medical and also working to see about trying to diversify to make it more accessible. second in the picture in the middle i have a picture of one of our co-workers peter mendoza who's using his electric power chair but more importantly he has a setup of 2 smart tablets being held up in front of him by a coil type of clamp. hey peter, thank you. [laughter]. >> for those who are here peter is approaching and he's showing off his setup system. by having these thin but sturdy clamps he's able to access his smart devices really important for getting around the city when at work for checking e-mails basically being able to increase his capacity to work and access the community. thank you peter. lastly on the right i have a picture of a hurricane -- spelled hurrycane that is able to it's a multifooted folding cane so 4 feet

medicare and medicaid could draw lessons from this experience. now, we're pleased to have today as our partner well point incorporated, operator of the blue cross blue shield plan in more than a dozen states, which collectively cover about 1 in 9 americans. you're going to be hearing from michael billman from wel point's anthem health plan in a few minutes. let me take a couple of moments to cover some logistics. there's a lot of background information about our speakers in your packets. you'll also find in hard copy the power point presentations of our speakers. those slides and all of the background material those of you in the room have in your kits are available on the alliance website, www.all health.org. also on aour website, you can views a web cast of the briefing in a couple of days. and a few days after that, a transport of today's discussion. now, of course if you're watching on c-span, you have a video, you also have access to all of the materials i mentioned if you have a computer as well and can go on to our website, all health.org, and you can follow along with the s

such a large increase of spending, particularly in medicare, does that count as -- if you're taking a preventive drug or going through some sort of service to keep you from worsening in your diabetes that that would not necessarily -- could you apply that reference pricing to those kinds of things as well? >> it's any script in that those four categories of drugs. the medical side with the high-tech imaging, we don't do target pricing for children although we're finding what's happening with our associates and their family members who are over the age of 18, they're starting to ask questions when their children need an imaging service, so that's good. we don't really call it elective. it's not an emergency -- >> david, do you have something to add on to that? several people are interested in reimbursement domestic tourism. medical tourism, yes. let me read them off. if somebody had to travel to a distant hospital, expenses paid before travel, what kind of expensions are covered? such as wages for extra time off, child care, post procedure follow up visits. expenses for traveling compa